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  1. Re:Proper generic term hasn't been invented on France Bans Facebook and Twitter From Radio and TV · · Score: 1

    Ill-considered soundbites from haphazardly-picked and uninformed local citizens has been a staple of local TV news for decades.

  2. Re:Mozilla's public disclosure on Mozilla Posts File Containing Registered User Data · · Score: 1

    One technique is to use a password that is a function of the website domain name. For example, all of your passwords could be the number of characters in the second level of the domain, a random string, and the first letter of the domain. For slashdot, the password would be "8RANDOMs". This won't protect against a person who knows your password, but it will stop a script that knows 44,000 username/password pairs and blindly submits them to websites.

  3. Re:This sounds familiar to, on 5th Underhanded C Contest Now Open · · Score: 1

    Isn't it obvious? It prints the string "unix\n".

  4. Re:And she should get a year on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    Facebook doesn't send a notification when you unfriend someone. Either one of them could have (and should have) unfriended the other one.

  5. Our Military on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    We could always kindly ask the military to use a little less of the spectrum. I'm sure they really don't need half of the spectrum. What do you think are the chances of that happening?

  6. Re:Also why are they doing it? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 1
  7. Re:5,000 equal $230,000 a month on How Much Money Do Free-To-Play MMOs Make? · · Score: 1

    Have you seen what has happened to the value of the US dollar over the past 10 years?

  8. not worth inventing on IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · · Score: 1

    Did that say from the not worthy-inventions dept?

  9. Re:Crappy quality on Shuttle and Hubble Passing In Front of the Sun · · Score: 1

    But NASA could avoid all those problems by using the Hubble Space Telescope!

  10. Re:The web is NOT an archive on Treating the Web As an Archive · · Score: 1

    Even if you don't have a program that can render html or css, researchers will always be able to read the plain text. In the year 12009, first year computer science students will still be able to write a program that turns html into plain text. As long as the tables and CSS are only used for formating, it doesn't really matter. Of course, occasionally there are times when tags actually matter:
    Schrodinger's cat is <blink> not </blink> dead.

  11. Re:Except weight and mileage DOES count... on Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is proportional to the forth power of the weight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road#Maintenance .

  12. Re:Don't go on IP Rights For Games Made In School? · · Score: 1

    I don't think there are any schools that don't claim your IP.

  13. Re:this pisses me off on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    80% of the antibiotics we use in America don't even go to humans to treat illness. Instead, factory farms feed it in low doses to all of their animals because it makes the animals grow a little faster. This is a complete waste of antibiotics, and it is significantly worse than over-prescription.

  14. Catching Fire on Telecom Rollouts Raise Ire Over Utility Boxes · · Score: 1

    "A few caught fire or even exploded."

    Sure, AT&T claims it is the back up batteries. How do we know it wasn't the "Not in my front yard" crowd taking matters into their own hands?

  15. Re:Terraforming Earth on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 1

    How do you plan to get millions of dollars of government money to do transform the Sahara?

  16. Re:Editorializing in summary? on Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA · · Score: 1

    Stop nagging elnico about petty things. By the way, you're a nagger.

  17. Re:Who Cares What Language, It Reeks of Poor Desig on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    While a complete rewrite could save money in the long run, in the short term this would be very costly.

    It wouldn't be near as costly if you only paid the coders minimum wage.

  18. Re:Of course! on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 1

    Are you a troll? I played (and beat) Portal and Half-Life 2 on Linux using wine. If you search for the howto, it is not that hard to install.

  19. The correct way to indent... on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt.
    —Blair P. Houghton

  20. Re:Free speech? Thought police? on eBay'er Arrested For Attempting To Sell His Vote · · Score: 1

    When you choose to live in a country with a government...

    Could you please tell me where I can live without a government?

  21. Re:Slaughterhouse Cases on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    An "editing" capability would be nice for things like this.

    It's called preview.

  22. Re:Duh on Your Online Profile Actually Tells a Lot About You · · Score: 1

    The em-dash key is hidden—it is spread out between several keys. If you want an em-dash in Slashdot (or html), type — which becomes — .

  23. Re:Water sublimating on Water Ice On Mars · · Score: 1

    If you leave a tray of ice in the freezer for a few months, the ice will turn into water vapor. You will see the ice cubes get smaller and smaller over time. (Try it if you don't believe me.) This shows that under normal air pressure, water will sublimate, which is just a fancy way to say that it goes from solid to gas without becoming a liquid.

  24. Re:Do what my grandparents do on Compressed VoIP Calls Vulnerable To Bugging · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Going from one language to two would only make the process of breaking the message a bit more complex, and by that I mean precisely one bit more complex, because there would be about twice as many phrases to look for. This is not a solution. The solution is to not use variable bit rate compression if security is important.

  25. Re:SSD Performance on Seagate Announces First SSD, 2TB HDD · · Score: 1

    Flash is really designed for large, linear, aligned, writes.... Unfortunately, no application acts like this. I can think of one, but it is a bit of a stretch to call it an application:
    sudo dd if=sdb1 of=/dev/sdb1

    I currently have my /usr partition on a flash drive. I installed Ubuntu on the hard disk, and got everything working like I wanted. Then, I made an ext3 filesystem the size of the flash drive in a file named sdb1, and mounted it with -o loop. Next, I copied all the files in /usr to the flash drive and unmounted the file. Finally, I copied the image onto the flash drive.

    Starting programs is much faster now. It used to take around 30 seconds from when I logged in until Firefox opened, and now it takes around 17 seconds. Apt-get is the only program that should ever write to /usr, and it is of course quite a bit slower.